It's a damned good racket, but it can be done. Just give enough money to MS, and they'll let you do anything you want.
Mind you, XP is solidly into security-patches-only support, and even that's drawing to a close, so I'd imagine the UK is looking into installing lots of firewalls over the next year or two, or they're even less intelligent than I gave them credit for.
Sure you can. Buy more than 100 seats of Windows 7 Pro, with Software Assurance, and self-downgrade before the initial install. Besides, most 100+ seat businesses use a custom OS image anyways. Easy enough to make it an XP Pro image, if you can find drivers for everything.
Next time, after a few hours, back up whatever you can be 100% certain is clean, and FORMAT THAT SHIT. Waste of goddamned time blew the setup for your spam comment. I stopped reading too soon.
No coffee for you today!
Also, what have I told you minimum wage idiots about establishing comments!? DON'T MAKE YOUR SHILL YOUR FIRST POST.
Look, JEEEzus, I just had this talk with Cheeseburgers in the other Apple thread. If you're going to shill in public, where people can see you, you have to WARM UP with a couple of unrelated posts. You can drop the account AFTER you shill, but if it's your only post, ever, it's disregarded! Our job is to shape and influence public perception of our clients, not just make a transparent "YAY APPLE" post and disappear. They're going to go with another PR group if you keep up this subpar work!
See me in my office at 4:30 and remember, COFFEE IS FOR SUCCESSFUL SHILLS. You can't have any.
Do you often hear a noise you can't place, sounds like "woooosh"?
I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner, I was downstairs giving Cheese and the other new hire shills the monologue from Glengarry Glenross. I'm sure the quality of their 'posts' will rise soon.
If you want to further screw up the MPAA numbers, take into account all the folks who saw it in theaters AND downloaded it. I saw it opening midnight, and I'm on the hunt for a watchable copy. I'll probably see it again in theaters in the next week or two, and I'll want to watch a couple times in the comfort of my living room while I wait for the Bluray.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation either.
If Osama was alive, he would have released a video as soon as possible after we declared him authoritatively dead. "Ha ha, still alive and well, pig-eating traitor American fascists! LOLWUT!"
Osama Bin Laden is profoundly dead. May he rest in many pieces.
"Its nice they returned it, but it is trash now. Who knows what little devices the FBI might have installed on the thing."
I'll take it. I'd love to do some dissection and inspection, maybe get some shiny new toys, until the FBI realizes what happened and shows up to demand their magnetic GPS trackers back, writ larger.
The FBI is large, and has massive budgets, but they move like a federal agency; slowly, and in deep ruts. I'm pretty sure any hardware changes would be detectable, and any firmware/software changes can be knocked out by doing a ground-up rebuild, starting with fresh BIOS/UEFI flashes onto new chips, via TSOP writer.
Any individual piece of software or firmware can be tampered, but I can't imagine the FBI having the manpower or interest to backdoor every single anonymous firmware download out there. They could never keep up.
Indeed, but there's a world of difference between 'may not forbid installation' and 'may not make your life hell for ignoring his wishes'. I still passed on it.
I think we're arguing semantics now. I was signed up for three DVDs, one with Bluray (for my movies), plus streaming. I was paying around 25$ per month. After the 'split off', they were going to force me to have all three discs upgraded to Bluray default, or none at all. To offset that 'win', my monthly rate was going to almost DOUBLE. Even if I dropped Blurays entirely, I'd still be looking at more than 1.5X the cost. Only if I dropped physical discs entirely would my price drop. Netflix's catalog is cut to around 1/4 if you go streaming only. They've got an even worse ratio now after losing Starz (which was streaming-only, FWIW). I just don't see any appeal to it anymore. If I just want TV shows, piracy gives me better quality and minimal maintenance. I don't manually download anything, my shows just magically show up the day after they air (mere hours after, in most cases). If I want movies, Netflix still loses. Piracy gives me vastly better quality, near-infinite selection, and still a better monthly cost, to boot. I'm just not seeing the appeal in Netflix, sorry.
I was previously living that experiment. I had no cable TV, freeloaded off of open wifi (the neighborhood was replete), and got all my TV shows via downloads. The wife supplemented the things I downloaded with some Hulu, and we had TONS of shows and movies via Netflix to round things out. For certain big things, like the Lost finale (what a disappointment), I would get the antenna set up just so, and watch via OTA HD. It was nice.
Now we've moved out to a more rural setting. There are ZERO OTA channels available. I wanted to set up a nice tall antenna mast to try and catch a few, but the landlord was unenthused. Netflix dumped the great majority of their movie library by losing Starz, and jacked their rates up to unacceptable levels. Hulu is locking out folks who can't fax a current cable bill, and most of the other options are trying to dry up as well. I'm content to grab my shows via usenet, but the wife wants to be able to 'graze' on her precious TV channels. We might have cable TV again soon.:( Alternately, I might be single.
When I do a "new" install of Chrome (without signing in to a Google account), it ASKS me what search engine to default to. I believe it was Google, Bing, and Yahoo earlier tonight.
Not voting is giving up. Vote for the guy who won't win. At least stir the waters and indicate to the analysts that someone out there isn't goose-stepping smoothly like the others.
Actually, you can do exactly that. Most wouldn't bother fully concealing the muzzle flash, but a flash suppressor does the meaningful percentages of that job.
You go to the store, you buy a "game". You go home and open the green plastic box, and take out your little slips of paper. You slowly and laboriously enter a long alphanumeric code. Your console blinks some LEDs and talks to MS. Your console puts a light show on your TV and tells you about the ABSOLUTELY BADASS game you just "bought". An hour or two later, it's done downloading and you can play.
There is no used game market, and don't buy games grey market, or you'll get all your games revoked!
Holy shit. As soon as you look, it's immediately apparent. The creek above the plant is white where there's turbulence, and green where there isn't. At the plant, it becomes maroon. Down where that creek flows into a larger one, you can see a clear tail of the maroon water flowing into the larger green creek.
So even if they had to slap the "UAV" guy on the wrist and throw out the info, anyone looking at Google could have made an 'anonymous' complaint afterwards.
Sent to Robert P. Casey, JR, Senator (D) from Pennsylvania:
"Big media may pay your bills, but your constituents elect you, sir. SOPA/PIPA does EVERYTHING for them and NOTHING for us. You should be ashamed of yourself for co-sponsoring PIPA. Please withdraw your support, immediately, and publicly."
YASU is for bypassing SecuROM's blacklisting of virtual drive software. Not a correct solution, unless you meant to point out how the DRM doesn't slow down the pirates.
I did misremember the copy protection, though. It's Tages, not SecuROM.
The Steam page states that you get three activations, and after 30 days, they regenerate. This is completely incorrect, you get three activations period, for life, no exceptions.
Quote: "I've never tried to crack a game on Steam, because once it's installed and has had it's activation, I've never been annoyed by any Steam game. "
Be careful. Being on Steam only guarantees it has the light layer of Steam DRM, it DOES NOT prevent the publisher from requiring other, more obnoxious forms of DRM as well. I bought that Pitch Black game on Steam (super sale, looked entertaining), but have never been able to play it because it packs in a non-64bit compatible version of SecuROM as well.
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It's a damned good racket, but it can be done. Just give enough money to MS, and they'll let you do anything you want.
Mind you, XP is solidly into security-patches-only support, and even that's drawing to a close, so I'd imagine the UK is looking into installing lots of firewalls over the next year or two, or they're even less intelligent than I gave them credit for.
Sure you can. Buy more than 100 seats of Windows 7 Pro, with Software Assurance, and self-downgrade before the initial install. Besides, most 100+ seat businesses use a custom OS image anyways. Easy enough to make it an XP Pro image, if you can find drivers for everything.
Next time, after a few hours, back up whatever you can be 100% certain is clean, and FORMAT THAT SHIT. Waste of goddamned time blew the setup for your spam comment. I stopped reading too soon.
No coffee for you today!
Also, what have I told you minimum wage idiots about establishing comments!? DON'T MAKE YOUR SHILL YOUR FIRST POST.
I swear, I need a new job.
Tenure is a horrible, horrible thing. I'll keep working on it.
Look, JEEEzus, I just had this talk with Cheeseburgers in the other Apple thread. If you're going to shill in public, where people can see you, you have to WARM UP with a couple of unrelated posts. You can drop the account AFTER you shill, but if it's your only post, ever, it's disregarded! Our job is to shape and influence public perception of our clients, not just make a transparent "YAY APPLE" post and disappear. They're going to go with another PR group if you keep up this subpar work!
See me in my office at 4:30 and remember, COFFEE IS FOR SUCCESSFUL SHILLS. You can't have any.
Do you often hear a noise you can't place, sounds like "woooosh"?
I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner, I was downstairs giving Cheese and the other new hire shills the monologue from Glengarry Glenross. I'm sure the quality of their 'posts' will rise soon.
New user, first comment, excessively praising one tech company.
Jesus H Christ, do I have to come downstairs and TEACH you guys how to do your jobs properly???
If you want to further screw up the MPAA numbers, take into account all the folks who saw it in theaters AND downloaded it. I saw it opening midnight, and I'm on the hunt for a watchable copy. I'll probably see it again in theaters in the next week or two, and I'll want to watch a couple times in the comfort of my living room while I wait for the Bluray.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation either.
Odd. I'm American and always spelt it 'combatting'.
Neither seems 100% when I think about it, though. The word is "combat ing", not 'combat ting", but combating looks like "com ba ting" as you noted.
If Osama was alive, he would have released a video as soon as possible after we declared him authoritatively dead. "Ha ha, still alive and well, pig-eating traitor American fascists! LOLWUT!"
Osama Bin Laden is profoundly dead. May he rest in many pieces.
"Its nice they returned it, but it is trash now. Who knows what little devices the FBI might have installed on the thing."
I'll take it. I'd love to do some dissection and inspection, maybe get some shiny new toys, until the FBI realizes what happened and shows up to demand their magnetic GPS trackers back, writ larger.
The FBI is large, and has massive budgets, but they move like a federal agency; slowly, and in deep ruts. I'm pretty sure any hardware changes would be detectable, and any firmware/software changes can be knocked out by doing a ground-up rebuild, starting with fresh BIOS/UEFI flashes onto new chips, via TSOP writer.
Any individual piece of software or firmware can be tampered, but I can't imagine the FBI having the manpower or interest to backdoor every single anonymous firmware download out there. They could never keep up.
No sir, I learn from my mistakes. Sometimes I learn slow, but I tend to remember the painful ones very clearly.
Indeed, but there's a world of difference between 'may not forbid installation' and 'may not make your life hell for ignoring his wishes'. I still passed on it.
I think we're arguing semantics now. I was signed up for three DVDs, one with Bluray (for my movies), plus streaming. I was paying around 25$ per month. After the 'split off', they were going to force me to have all three discs upgraded to Bluray default, or none at all. To offset that 'win', my monthly rate was going to almost DOUBLE. Even if I dropped Blurays entirely, I'd still be looking at more than 1.5X the cost. Only if I dropped physical discs entirely would my price drop. Netflix's catalog is cut to around 1/4 if you go streaming only. They've got an even worse ratio now after losing Starz (which was streaming-only, FWIW). I just don't see any appeal to it anymore. If I just want TV shows, piracy gives me better quality and minimal maintenance. I don't manually download anything, my shows just magically show up the day after they air (mere hours after, in most cases). If I want movies, Netflix still loses. Piracy gives me vastly better quality, near-infinite selection, and still a better monthly cost, to boot. I'm just not seeing the appeal in Netflix, sorry.
I was previously living that experiment. I had no cable TV, freeloaded off of open wifi (the neighborhood was replete), and got all my TV shows via downloads. The wife supplemented the things I downloaded with some Hulu, and we had TONS of shows and movies via Netflix to round things out. For certain big things, like the Lost finale (what a disappointment), I would get the antenna set up just so, and watch via OTA HD. It was nice.
Now we've moved out to a more rural setting. There are ZERO OTA channels available. I wanted to set up a nice tall antenna mast to try and catch a few, but the landlord was unenthused. Netflix dumped the great majority of their movie library by losing Starz, and jacked their rates up to unacceptable levels. Hulu is locking out folks who can't fax a current cable bill, and most of the other options are trying to dry up as well. I'm content to grab my shows via usenet, but the wife wants to be able to 'graze' on her precious TV channels. We might have cable TV again soon. :( Alternately, I might be single.
When I do a "new" install of Chrome (without signing in to a Google account), it ASKS me what search engine to default to. I believe it was Google, Bing, and Yahoo earlier tonight.
Not voting is giving up. Vote for the guy who won't win. At least stir the waters and indicate to the analysts that someone out there isn't goose-stepping smoothly like the others.
I read 'Big Dog" and "much bigger" and was INSTANTLY in AT-AT land.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
Actually, you can do exactly that. Most wouldn't bother fully concealing the muzzle flash, but a flash suppressor does the meaningful percentages of that job.
Let me show you the future:
You go to the store, you buy a "game". You go home and open the green plastic box, and take out your little slips of paper. You slowly and laboriously enter a long alphanumeric code. Your console blinks some LEDs and talks to MS. Your console puts a light show on your TV and tells you about the ABSOLUTELY BADASS game you just "bought". An hour or two later, it's done downloading and you can play.
There is no used game market, and don't buy games grey market, or you'll get all your games revoked!
Holy shit. As soon as you look, it's immediately apparent. The creek above the plant is white where there's turbulence, and green where there isn't. At the plant, it becomes maroon. Down where that creek flows into a larger one, you can see a clear tail of the maroon water flowing into the larger green creek.
So even if they had to slap the "UAV" guy on the wrist and throw out the info, anyone looking at Google could have made an 'anonymous' complaint afterwards.
Sent to Robert P. Casey, JR, Senator (D) from Pennsylvania:
"Big media may pay your bills, but your constituents elect you, sir. SOPA/PIPA does EVERYTHING for them and NOTHING for us. You should be ashamed of yourself for co-sponsoring PIPA. Please withdraw your support, immediately, and publicly."
YASU is for bypassing SecuROM's blacklisting of virtual drive software. Not a correct solution, unless you meant to point out how the DRM doesn't slow down the pirates.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/9860/
I did misremember the copy protection, though. It's Tages, not SecuROM.
The Steam page states that you get three activations, and after 30 days, they regenerate. This is completely incorrect, you get three activations period, for life, no exceptions.
Quote: "I've never tried to crack a game on Steam, because once it's installed and has had it's activation, I've never been annoyed by any Steam game. "
Be careful. Being on Steam only guarantees it has the light layer of Steam DRM, it DOES NOT prevent the publisher from requiring other, more obnoxious forms of DRM as well. I bought that Pitch Black game on Steam (super sale, looked entertaining), but have never been able to play it because it packs in a non-64bit compatible version of SecuROM as well.